So your suggestion is to use something like this:

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt-br">and the expression br-PT constructed the first part with the website language and geodetecting the second part of the string (the PT)?</meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt-br">

But I don't have two websites for portuguese. I have one.

Same happens with German. It is not only speaked in Germany, Austria also has a big part of the country speaking German.

I can't translate my website into all different countries and language variations. I already have more than 10 so I can tell that is hard to maintain

Basically what sounds contradictory to me is that I'm not using a country approach but a language approach like many websites. But still Google is getting confused with it.

Thanks for the answer.

Of what you suggested, I have canonicals and content language meta tag.

I haven't tried the yet. Maybe that helps.

I have sitemaps too.

The problem I see with geotargeting with WM is what I mentioned above. Portugal and Brazil share the same language: portuguese. But in webmaster tools I can't say pt.domain.com is intented for Brzil and Portugal. I need to pick only one.

Exactly that's the issue. For example I go to google.com.mx and I see my domain spanish domain with sitelinks pointing to my dutch domain!

The problem I see with geotargeting with WM is what I mentioned above. Portugal and Brazil share the same language: portuguese. But in webmaster tools I can't say pt.domain.com is intented for Brzil and Portugal. I need to pick only one.

Maybe the mobile in particular is a bad example because you are right, I can restrict access to it. But It's happening with the site in other languages too.

I have this on all my pages:

http-equiv="Content-Language" content="nl" /> or this http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de" />

that's why I'm clueless

The problem I see with geo targeting through webmasters tool is that I can pick a country and not a language.

For example I have a portuguese version for Brzil and Portugal. I know this is not the best approach cause both languages has its differences, but I can say this website is for Portugal OR Brazil. Not for poruguese speaking countries.

I don't want Google not to crawl the website. I want to set this up properly so he sees that they are different

Hi!

I'm experiencing something that's kind of strange for me.

I have my main domain let's say: www.domain.com. Then I have my mobile version in a subdomain: mobile.domain.com and I also have a german version of the website de.domain.com.

When I Google my domain I have the main result linking to: www.domain.com but then Google mixes all the domains in the sites links.

For example a Sing in may be linking mobile.domain.com, a How it works link may be pointing to de.domain.com, etc

What's the solution? I think this is hurting a lot my position cause google sees that all are the same domain when clearly is not.

thanks!!

awesome! really help. thanks

Hey guys,

In my company we are launching a new website and there's an issue it's been bothering me for a while. I'm sure you guys can help me out.

I already have a website, let's say ABC.com

I'm preparing a localized version of that website for the uk so we'll launch ABC.co.uk

Basically the websites are going to be exactly the same with the difference of the homepage. They have a slightly different proposition.

Using GeoIP I will redirect the UK traffic to ABC.co.uk and the rest of the traffic will still visit .com website.

May google penalize this? The site itself it will be almost the same but the homepage. This may count as duplicate content even if I'm geo-targeting different regions so they will never overlap.

Thanks in advance for you advice